as it says.. I'm going to get some spherical bearings to replace my poly CAB's but don't have any around to measure. if anyone could give me a hand that would be great. I'll probally go up to the dealership and ask too but I doubt that will do me much good.

 

talk to qwikredline, his shop actually makes new control arms with the bearings in it.

 

you cannot just fit a steel spherical joint into the arm. Our racing arms are $1000 a pair brand new arms complete with bow tie leading bushings in delrin and spherical jointed trailing bushings and ball joint heat shields.

The flca is aluminium, you gotta be careful about the corrosion that happens between the two metals, so you cant just stick steel in the arm, there are NO spherical joints with that large an outer diameter that you can just stick in there in place of the flca trailing bushing.

We are currently working on a bolt on, not a weld in replacement set, the spherical joints that can work are about 75 bucks each with NO machine parts made to adapt them to the arm. You will need to pony up at least 300 bucks for a pair to bolt onto your arms... that may be light.

Spherical joints dont have rubber sleeves, there are no cross axis ball joints suitable from the joint manufacturers, and the new design I am working on will rubber boots but will require maintenence...

GM have had made a special harder bushing for this application for SCCA T3 racing I cannot find the source and there is ahrdly anyone left at GM who gives a rats ass about anyof this.

So NO cheap solution, and if you want to do it yourself, talk to Italian Joe on here he has done spherical joints very nice ones in stainless steel bolt on, but the electrolytic corrosion that can set in even with stainless is an issue...and he probably doesnt care much about doing more as the nickle and dimers may have driven him crazy already...

 

Thanx for the good info I'd still like the dimensions of the stock cabs if anyone has them there are good sides to having your whole family involved in the machining and fabricating business. I've got some ideas about how to get around combatant metals and if it works I'll let you know.